Carter Blames Catholics and Other Christians for Abuse of Women and Girls

Jimmy Carter Again Blames Catholics, Other Christians for Abuse of Women and Girls (CNS News)

"The existing abuse of females is the worst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth," says former President Jimmy Carter, who is making the rounds of various news shows to promote his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.

Carter -- repeating something he's stated previously -- said the abuse is "indirectly" derived "from the fact that religious leaders say that women are inferior in the eyes of God, which is a false interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. But when they see that the pope, and the Southern Baptist Convention and others say that women can't serve as priests and so forth equally with men, they say, 'Well, and I'll treat my wife the way I want to because she's inferior to me.'"